Many well-meaning Christians today still believe that we need to follow the OT (Mosaic) law to be Christians. From the rise of the Hebrew Roots movement we are seeing a host people trying to convince Christians to run back to the OT law. However, the witness of the New Testament and also of Jesus puts that … Read more
You’ve seen contemporary worship and you’ve seen relevant worship, but now is the time for Contemporvant!
As much as I enjoy poking fun at my own faith I don’t think that this is a funny story. I mean, people are actually dying from snake bites. Yet the madness continues. Latest snake handling death cases Over the summer John David Brock, a member of Mossy Simpson Pentecostal Church, was bitten by a … Read more
About 8 years ago I visited what appeared be a a Baptist cult church that was out in the country, just south of Elyria Ohio. I was wearing shorts since it was mid-August and scorching hot outside. This turned out to be the wrong day to show up to church in shorts. I knew I might have made a mistake when my friend, who used to go to church there, showed up in business attire.
If you are part of a charismatic church or have visited one you might have noticed that some Corinthian behavior is present. Most popular of those is speaking in tongues and other various manifestations. (Although, not the sexual behaviors…..the denominational churches have the deviant sexual behavior of the Corinthians church taken care of already).
What you might not know is that the list of spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 is not an exhaustive list. Paul obviously was not aware that the 20th and 21st century would bring with them an addendum of gifts, in addition to the old ones; IE, wisdom, knowledge, healing, etc…..Here are a few that can be added to the list.
I have always been fascinated by people different body movements during worship; primarily because I really an not much of a mover. Here are 5 of my favorites.